Dr Gordon Hollingworth, our Head of Software, has been in Orlando visiting Familab, one of our favourite hackspaces. (I love it there – unusually, they’re in a big industrial unit, so they’ve got a lot of space for really big hardware. They’ve got cherry pickers, traffic lights, an industrial CNC milling machine and a lot of Lego.) The Orlando Sentinel went along to have a chat with him: here’s some video they took on the day.

Really sorry about the autoplay; we know you all hate it, but the video player used here doesn’t give us the option to turn it off when the video is embedded.Begone, autoplay!

Gordon sent an email to the office mailing list from his phone while he was there, saying that the pinball machine you see featured in the video was the coolest physical project he’s seen done with a Pi so far. Think you can do better? Let us know!

Autoplay is still working :( As stated above, if autoplay cannot be disabled, do not embed the video! Furthermore, it’s obvious the makers should use a different provider for their video clips, like one that disables autoplay ;)

Thank you Dr. Hollingworth for visiting us on your vacation. @Familab Thank you for allowing us to visit your great facility and visit with Dr. Hollingworth. @Ian Cole I think your raspberry pi pinball machine is the coolest project I’ve seen using the “PI”. We will be sharing the details on our website.